Trolls and bots

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• Leerjaar 3

Media manipuation

Trolls 

and 

bots

Who can explain the difference between trolls and bots?

Here's a short explanation.

So, increasingly more comments that you think are posted by humans are posted by bots.   

You're going to watch a video on Cambridge Analytica.

Here's some useful vocab explanation.

Fake news

to harvest data = data oogsten  =  data mining

to target= je ergens op richten

microtarget content= inhoud van boodschappen die zeer gedetailleerd op een bepaalde groep zich gericht

whistleblower = klokkenluider

voters= stemgerechtigden

susceptible to = ontvankelijk voor, gevoelig zijn voor

Questions

1. For what purposes, do you think, does a company like Cambridge Analytica need your data?

2. Who would be interested in paying for the services of companies like Cambridge Analytica?

Questions

You're going to watch a video on the crisis Facebook was in (in 2018). Try to answer the following questions:

1. What had Mark Zuckerberg to apologise for?
2. What is psychographic profiling? 
3. Can we trust what we see on Facebook? Explain.

YouTube's 'alternative influence network' breeds rightwing radicalisation, report finds

 

Study blames social media site’s network of scholars, media pundits and internet celebrities who unite to promote far-right politics.

YouTube provides a breeding ground for far-right radicalisation, where people interested in conservative and libertarian ideas are quickly exposed to white nationalist ones, according to a report from Data & Society.

Evaluation: Today you saw videos on trolls and bots, Cambridge Analytica and Facebook. You also saw quotes from a Guardian article on the influence of YouTube. Have you learnt something new? Explain in 3 sentences what you have discovered or summarise in 3 sentences what the message of this English class was. Preferably in English, but Dutch is also okay.